Alphas certainly deserve the market for high-end 64bit PCs, as it is a proven architecture that has been around since 1991 (or so). Even though the Merced is brand new, Intel will market it enough to dominate. I bet the Merced will be even more expensive than the Alpha! (Secret hope: there will be some hideous bug in Merced - like the original P5 and Chipzilla will fall flat on its face!)
Wait a sec, in the definition for improper means, it says that reverse engineering is NOT considered improper means. Isn't that what the developers did? In that case, the only people who might be able to sue are Xing, for breaking the EULA.
Also, how can CA law be applied to residents of foriegn countries (more than a few of the defendants). This case is only in a state court.
This is not the case with Microsoft's non-disclosed-source-code software - they don't give the customer the power to check or fix their negligence, thus the negligence is all theirs.
Not that I support M$, but if you buy M$ products why would you expect anything functional/useful from them? It's your own fault for buying their software when you know quite well that it will suck. But I don't suppose this would apply to all companies (and you don't have to worry about M$ using it as a defense if you sue them - "You know NT sucks, so why did you buy it? It's not our fault you bought an OS that trashed your company's data" ).
> On a scale of one to ten how stupid is this guy?
Oh, I'd say about 1,000.;-)
And I think I'll sue SlashDot for causing me to spend lots of time at my computer posting silly comments (or should I sue my ISP for giving me the connection?)
This is ridiculous. Not that I support counterfeiting, but embedding a unique in all scanned/printed images to track who they came from? Ridiculous. Any company who agreed to implement this idiocy would see its sales hurt. Hopefully, that is. It seems that too many people would probably either not understand or not care. Half the problem with privacy issues today is that not enough people care enough to make a statment so that something will be done.
Are they trying to piss everyone off? First it was the fiasco with the license for the beta, and now this? They must be crazy. No other distribution has pulled such ridiculous stunts yet (AFAIK). Just my $0.02
Misunderstanding my ass! How the hell could you "accidentally" spy on email messages?? The penalty for this ridiculous invasion of privacy should be a heck of lot more than 250K!
(If private companies can do this, who knows what the government is doing! Scary thoughts..)
Especially when you're doing dynamically created content, nested tables provide the same visual effect as frames, but are supported by MANY more browsers than frames (for example, it really sucks to not be able to load a site with lynx). I've several websites, sometimes using frames, sometimes using tables. Frames definetly can cut down on code duplication when you want navigation bars on every page, etc.; but only at the expense of lower browser compatibility. Tables make for a nicer looking product that will load in any browser (even lynx), though you may find yourself copying a lot of the same code to every page if you want navigation bars but don't do dynamic page generation (open a template, stick in content from one file, navbar from another, send page to client). Just my $0.02
I wonder why they're giving away RH5.1? Relatively speaking, it's ancient. Since many apps require newer versions of libraries, etc, I would think it wouldn't be terribly easy to get by with something so old. And since newer versions of RH aren't any more expensive (all they have to do is get a cheapbytes disc for a couple bucks and dupe it - or just buy them all), why can't they by giving away something newer? Don't get me wrong, this is a great idea overall - it just seems a little odd
This is GREAT!!! I've been looking at buying a new PC, but the only soundcard the manfacturer would bundle is from Aureal. Needless to say, I didn't like the idea that I wouldn't have sound under Linux, my primary OS. Hopefully, these drivers will be available in OSS/Free, not just the retail version of OSS, and in ALSA as well. Go Linux!!!
I didn't play Wolf3D until after I had played Doom and Doom 2 (got the disc and a bunch of other games for $1 on time). It was definetly cool and I was amazed that it ran quite well even on a 6Mhz IBM AT system with an ancient Aztech soundcard. And though many people say that Doom is the grandfather of all FPSs, I would have to say that it W3D is much closer.
Considering that many people must leave for work early and get back late because of long commutes, crazy traffic, and longer work hours, this sounds like a great way to raise pathetically low voter turnout rates. 'Course, making it secure enough to actually use doesn't sound easy. Though, now that I think about it, it would probably be a simple matter to have people enter their SSN or something and then the computer at the other end would check a database to make sure the person was a registered voter, still living, etc.
I just hope that cluless people don't try installing Linux on their systems and then make bad press about Linux being too hard for them to install and such.
..would be a multimedia-oriented linux distro. Good stuff to include would be MP3 players/encoders, WAV players/recorers, MIDI sequencers, various video players, and of course a fully functional DVD player. It would not be necessary to include most of the various server programs and such, since it would be oriented towards MM and the idea would be to have the system do the best it could.
Once I was doing some work at a company that had a 3-site WAN of NT and Novell. The names were ridiculous: bosntmail2114 bosnovfile121214 roxnt5665645. While it's can be easier to figure out what the names mean if you're reading the list in Explorer, it's a pain to sort through a lost of 100 server names that look alike. Server names that are regular words are easier to remember, but you can't get figure out what the server is for from the name. BTW, my father likes to use names like "jehovah" (home computer) and "goat", "tonsils", "frog" and all sorts of strange names (but it's not surprising considering that he calls himself Father Goat Tonsils!
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Alphas certainly deserve the market for high-end 64bit PCs, as it is a proven architecture that has been around since 1991 (or so). Even though the Merced is brand new, Intel will market it enough to dominate. I bet the Merced will be even more expensive than the Alpha! (Secret hope: there will be some hideous bug in Merced - like the original P5 and Chipzilla will fall flat on its face!)
Also, how can CA law be applied to residents of foriegn countries (more than a few of the defendants). This case is only in a state court.
This is not the case with Microsoft's non-disclosed-source-code software - they don't give the customer the power to check or fix their negligence, thus the negligence is all theirs.
Not that I support M$, but if you buy M$ products why would you expect anything functional/useful from them? It's your own fault for buying their software when you know quite well that it will suck. But I don't suppose this would apply to all companies (and you don't have to worry about M$ using it as a defense if you sue them - "You know NT sucks, so why did you buy it? It's not our fault you bought an OS that trashed your company's data" ).
My $0.02
How long do you think /. could go without being slapped by a lawsuit for copyright infringement if that was done?
Why doesn't this guy just sue his parents for having sex?
And they'd have a lot less customers too. (Maybe they'd need less tech support since the stupid users would be gone?)
Oh, I'd say about 1,000.
And I think I'll sue SlashDot for causing me to spend lots of time at my computer posting silly comments (or should I sue my ISP for giving me the connection?)
This is ridiculous. Not that I support counterfeiting, but embedding a unique in all scanned/printed images to track who they came from? Ridiculous. Any company who agreed to implement this idiocy would see its sales hurt. Hopefully, that is. It seems that too many people would probably either not understand or not care. Half the problem with privacy issues today is that not enough people care enough to make a statment so that something will be done.
My $0.02
Not that I love Windows 2000, but this sounds kind of silly.
Are they trying to piss everyone off? First it was the fiasco with the license for the beta, and now this? They must be crazy. No other distribution has pulled such ridiculous stunts yet (AFAIK). Just my $0.02
But wouldn't you rather have them when they're ready, not on some arbitrary date when they're not ready? (like M$ products!)
(If private companies can do this, who knows what the government is doing! Scary thoughts..)
My $0.02
Especially when you're doing dynamically created content, nested tables provide the same visual effect as frames, but are supported by MANY more browsers than frames (for example, it really sucks to not be able to load a site with lynx). I've several websites, sometimes using frames, sometimes using tables. Frames definetly can cut down on code duplication when you want navigation bars on every page, etc.; but only at the expense of lower browser compatibility. Tables make for a nicer looking product that will load in any browser (even lynx), though you may find yourself copying a lot of the same code to every page if you want navigation bars but don't do dynamic page generation (open a template, stick in content from one file, navbar from another, send page to client). Just my $0.02
I wonder why they're giving away RH5.1? Relatively speaking, it's ancient. Since many apps require newer versions of libraries, etc, I would think it wouldn't be terribly easy to get by with something so old. And since newer versions of RH aren't any more expensive (all they have to do is get a cheapbytes disc for a couple bucks and dupe it - or just buy them all), why can't they by giving away something newer? Don't get me wrong, this is a great idea overall - it just seems a little odd
We need to institute a death penalty for the lawyers who submit these crazy patents (and the examiners who approve them!)
My $0.02
Competition encourages both sides to make their product better than the other's (Checkpoint vs. Linux developers).
I'd be a lot happier if they didn't have this crap in their software to being with.
Aagh!! Segfault needs to allow comments again so these trolls will go back where they came from!!!
This is GREAT!!! I've been looking at buying a new PC, but the only soundcard the manfacturer would bundle is from Aureal. Needless to say, I didn't like the idea that I wouldn't have sound under Linux, my primary OS. Hopefully, these drivers will be available in OSS/Free, not just the retail version of OSS, and in ALSA as well. Go Linux!!!
I didn't play Wolf3D until after I had played Doom and Doom 2 (got the disc and a bunch of other games for $1 on time). It was definetly cool and I was amazed that it ran quite well even on a 6Mhz IBM AT system with an ancient Aztech soundcard. And though many people say that Doom is the grandfather of all FPSs, I would have to say that it W3D is much closer.
Considering that many people must leave for work early and get back late because of long commutes, crazy traffic, and longer work hours, this sounds like a great way to raise pathetically low voter turnout rates. 'Course, making it secure enough to actually use doesn't sound easy. Though, now that I think about it, it would probably be a simple matter to have people enter their SSN or something and then the computer at the other end would check a database to make sure the person was a registered voter, still living, etc.
My $.02
I just hope that cluless people don't try installing Linux on their systems and then make bad press about Linux being too hard for them to install and such.
..would be a multimedia-oriented linux distro. Good stuff to include would be MP3 players/encoders, WAV players/recorers, MIDI sequencers, various video players, and of course a fully functional DVD player. It would not be necessary to include most of the various server programs and such, since it would be oriented towards MM and the idea would be to have the system do the best it could.
Once I was doing some work at a company that had a 3-site WAN of NT and Novell. The names were ridiculous: bosntmail2114 bosnovfile121214 roxnt5665645. While it's can be easier to figure out what the names mean if you're reading the list in Explorer, it's a pain to sort through a lost of 100 server names that look alike. Server names that are regular words are easier to remember, but you can't get figure out what the server is for from the name. BTW, my father likes to use names like "jehovah" (home computer) and "goat", "tonsils", "frog" and all sorts of strange names (but it's not surprising considering that he calls himself Father Goat Tonsils!
I know what the "interactive experience" will be: AOL access!